LILY FAMILY 



WOOD LILY. RED LILY 



Lilium philadUphicum. 



The only native lily of the North whose bells are not recurved. Pre- 

 fers dry or sandy ground; and ranges from New England south to North 

 Carolina, and west to the Mississippi. 



Bulb. — Annual, rhizomatous, small, with few thick, brittle scales. 



Stem. — Erect, leafy, one to three feet high. 



Leaves. — Lanceolate or lance-linear, in whorls of five to eight. 



Flowers. — One to three at the summit of the stem; opening upward; 

 the six segments narrowing to a stem-like slendemess toward the base. 

 Color varying from orange-scarlet to scarlet-orange and paler, more 

 or less spotted with purple-brown on the inner part of the cup. 



The Wood Lily is our native representative of the second sub- 

 genus of lilies, of which Lilium ilegans and Lilium cdncolor are 

 excellent garden forms. 



One finds it on midsummer days a blaze of orange and scarlet 

 amid the grass and weeds of upland meadows, or glowing like a 

 lamp in the shadow of the hill forest. It is our one lily whose 

 petals do not recurve, whose cup is open to the sun — lily to its 

 heart's inmost core — nevertheless, 'it neither droops nor nods; 

 it is erect, upright, unyielding. 



UPRIGHT LILY 



Lilium Slogans. 



Bulb. — Perennial, ovoid. 



Stem.— One to two feet high, stiff, erect, slightly cobwebby, or some- 

 times nearly glabrous. 



Leaves.— ScsLttered or crowded, lanceolate, five to seven-nerved. 



Flowers.— One to five, erect, spreading; segments oblong, spatulate, 

 usually self-colored in yellow or orange-red, sometimes more or less 

 dotted. June. 



Lilium elegans is a Japanese lily much cultivated under a 

 variety of forms and of names. In the type the flower is self-col- 



